Improvement in apparatus for distilling and purifying liquor



F. M. YOUNG.

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No. 103,535. Patented May 24, 18TH).

PETERS, PNOTO-UTHOGRAPNER. WASH NGTON o still are spent.

, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS M. YOUNG, 0E NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

I IMPROVEMENT lN APPARATUS FOR DISTlLLlNG AND PURIFYING LIQUOR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 103,535, dated May 24, 1870.

To all whom "it may concern:

' parts of the said apparatus.

My invention relates to that process of distillation wherein the vapor is passed through ch arcoal or an equivalent purifying agent; and

it consists in arranging the receptacle which contains said charcoal so as to act as a doubler at the same time that it is employed as apurifier.

It also consists in the manner of constructing and arranging said receptacleso that the coal may be introduced in successive fresh charges at-the top of the same, and discharged, when spent, at the bottom.

In the process of distillation, when charcoal is employed the ordinary mode is to place the charcoalin the still, and it therefore requires to be changed as often as the contents of the uid and only permitted to act upon the vapors passing upward, the purification will be much more complete and the required proportion of charcoal much less. It also becomes feasible to employ a mass of coal sufficient to purify thevapors from the still for a long time-say thirty days-without renewal. This greatly facilitates the process, as it requires less care and labor than under the ordinary method. When the charcoal has been used to purify the vapors without being placed within the still an entirely separate device has been employed,

'from which any condensed liquid would necessarily run back into the still or remain in the bottom of the filter until drawn 011'. With my device the filter acts also as a doubler and takes This is troublesome and inef-- ficient. If the coal is separated from the liqtub; and D,thelow-winesreceiver, The purifier and doubler is represented in vertical sec tion.

In the process of distillation, with my apparatus arranged substantially as described, the

vapors from the still Aenter the bottom of the purifier B, pass upward through the mass of coal and out at the top. They thence pass to a the worm O by the pipe I). When the proof has been so far reduced that low-wines only pass over, the same are turned into the low-wines receiver D, and from thence are returned to the doubler B, as usual. The general features of the process above indicated are not new, but by the device and process invented by me the purification and doubling is greatly facilitated.

The doubler and purifier B is composed of a cylinder constructed of suitable materials and provided with one or more perforated partitions, a, upon which the charcoal rests. The cylinderB is provided with openings 0 d, for the reception and discharge of the coal. Thelower partition, (I, is situated a short distance above the bottom of the cylinder, so as to form a ch amher, 6, below it, and into this chamber the steam and vapor are received from the still by the pipe f. The low wines are also discharged, when desired, into said chamber by thepipe g, and the pipe it serves to. return any liquid in the chamber 6 to the still, it required. It may be necessary tolocate the still, purifier, 850., so that the liquids can only be transferred from the low-wines receiver, chamber 0, &c., by means of monte-jusor pump. Thelow-wines returned to the chamber 6 are again vaporized and carried through the coal.

When several partitions a are employed in the purifier they are all, except the lower one, provided with valves 1', by means of which the coal may be successively passed from the high-' est to the lowest and then discharged through I am aware that the process of purification the still A, worm O, and low-wines receiver D, by passing the vapors from the still through as set forth, and for the purpose described.

charcoal or other agents has long been prac- 2. The combined purifier and doubler B, conticed. I therefore do not claim anything as to structedwith several perforated partitions prothat prim-iple purification, but only as to the vided with valves 6, substantially as set forth devices and manner of conducting said process and described. herein described.

Having described my invention, what I YOUNG claim as new is VVitnesses-z 1. The cylinder B, constructed with the par- E. R. MOKEAY,

tition a and chamber 6, and connected with I R. D. 0. SMITH. 

